We have in the past had ACPICA users that wished to terminate and later restart (Novell). In any case, we advertise this as a feature, so it should work. > -----Original Message----- > From: lenb417@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:lenb417@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Len Brown > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:48 AM > To: Zheng, Lv > Cc: Wysocki, Rafael J; Moore, Robert; Brown, Len; linux acpi; Tomasz > Nowicki > Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] ACPICA: Clear events initialized flag upon > event component termination > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Clear this flag to allow clean startup and even double termination. > > ACPICA BZ 1013. Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The patch looks logically correct, but I'm wondering what use-case made it > necessary. Do you have a system where you disable ACPI and then disable > ACPI again? > > BTW. it looks like we don't check for this flag being FALSE when we > initialize, so I suppose if you had the case where you enable, disable, > and then re-enable ACPI mode, that would already work -- though I don't > know if anybody has ever done that. > > Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
